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CHAPTER XV.
PARISH OF ST. MICHAEL'S-ON-WYRE.
UPPER RAWCLIFFE-WITH-TARNACRE.
In the Domesday Book no less than three Rawcliffes
are mentioned, and have been identified, respectively,
with Upper, Middle, and Out Rawcliffes, the last being
stated to contain three carucates, and the others two
carucates each. In the Testa de Nevill it is entered that the
grandfather of Theobald Walter gave four carucates of land in
(Upper) Rawcliffe, Thistleton, and Greenhalgh, to his daughter
Alice, on her marriage with Orm Magnus. William de Lancaster
held Upper Rawcliffe at the time of his death in 1240; and in
1248 Theobald Walter, or le Botiler, had lands in Upper Rawcliffe
and Mid Rawcliffe, as well as the manor of Out Rawcliffe, the
principal portion of which had doubtless descended to him from
his ancestor alluded to above.[1] An inquiry was instituted in 1322,
during the reign of Edward II., concerning the possessions in land
and mills of John de Rigmayden in Upper Rawcliffe, Wyresdale,
and Garstang; and a similar inquisition, with the exception of
Garstang, was made, three years later, in the case of widow
Christiana de Coucy de Guynes.[2] In the succeeding few years
Joan, the daughter and heiress of John de Rigmayden, and John
de Coupland held Upper Rawcliffe between them. John de
Coupland had married the widow of Sir William de Goucy, and
was the gallant soldier who captured David II., king of Scotland,
